Volume 15, No 11-12, Nov 2005
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
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Volume 15 Issue 11-12, November 2005: 852-857
COMMENTARY
High risk populations and HIV-1 infection in China
Tuo Fu ZHU1,2,3, Chun Hui WANG1, Peng LIN4 and Na HE5
1Departments of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
2Departments of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
3Programs in Infectious Diseases, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98195-8070, USA
4Guangdong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510300, China
5School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Correspondence: Tuo Fu Zhu(tzhu@u.washington.edu)
China is currently experiencing one of the most rapidly expanding HIV epidemics in the world. Although the overall prevalence rate is still low, with a population of 1.3 billion, high-risk factors which have contributed to the HIV/AIDS epidemics worldwide continue to prevail in China, including a high rate of injecting drug use and needle sharing, commercial sex with low rates of condom use, and concurrent sex with both commercial sex workers and noncommercial casual or steady sex partners. In addition, there are increasing "double risk" populations overlapping drug users and sex workers, as well as increasing rates of STDs and HIV among high-risk populations. Sexual transmission, therefore, may serve as a bridge connecting high-risk populations with general populations. There is an urgent need to prevent the spread of HIV from these high-risk populations into the general population of China.
Cell Research (2005) 15, 852–857. doi:10.1038/sj.cr.7290358
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